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The paper considers a situation with two types of production planning decisions: order acceptance decisions and scheduling decisions. These can be structured in a Hierarchical Planning System (HPS), where each level provides general guidelines for a lower level or in an integrated manner. Schedule Oriented Planning System (SOPS), where decisions at all levels are taken simultaneously. To investigate the behavior of both types of systems in a particular stylistic production situation, an example of a HPS will be defined as well as an example of a SOPS. Next, it compares these two examples by evaluating their performances. Results indicate that a carefully tuned HPS achieves a performance that is comparable with that of the more detailed SOPS.